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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What role does Silver want Jim to play in XXVIII?
(a) Leader of the mutineers
(b) Silver's assistant
(c) A mutineer
(d) A hostage

2. Why does Jim refuse to run from the pirates in Chapter XXX?
(a) He does not think it is worth the risk
(b) He is afraid to Silver
(c) He says it would not be right
(d) He is now a mutineer

3. Who created the item Livesey discovers in Chapter XVI?
(a) Ben Gunn
(b) Flint’s men
(c) Flint himself
(d) The mutineers

4. What time of day does Jim take the boat at the end of Chapter XXII?
(a) As the sun begins to set
(b) Noon
(c) Immediately
(d) When darkness falls

5. What does Jim decide to search for in Chapter XXII?
(a) Ben's boat
(b) Silver
(c) An escape route
(d) The treasure

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has a meeting in Chapter XXVIII about a second mutiny?

2. Who is pinned to the mast at the end of Chapter XXVI?

3. Who tends to the mutineers every day, according to Chapter XXIX?

4. What is a hawser?

5. What does a pirate hand to Silver at the beginning of Chapter XXIX?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Silver tell Jim about Dr. Livesey in Chapter XXVIII?

2. Why is it useless for Jim to paddle to shore at the beginning of Chapter XXIV?

3. 1Who does Jim find on the deck of the Hispaniola in Chapter XXV?

4. What do the pirates’ voices on the Hispaniola in Chapter XIX suggest to Jim?

5. Why does Jim take the coracle to the Hispaniola in Chapter XXIII?

6. What does Jim discover when he reaches the stockade at the end of Chapter XXVII?

7. What does Jim go looking for in Chapter XXII?

8. How does Silver announce himself to Smollett in Chapter XX?

9. Why is Jim unable to escape the Hispaniola at the end of Chapter XXIV?

10. Why do Livesey and Hunter go ashore in Chapter XVI?

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